Alstroemerias III

 The painting began with ...

this beautiful bouquet!

It was a time of great upheaval. 

My studio was demolished to get ready for a renovation. 

Moving upstairs had advantages: good light, close to the kitchen, but disadvantages in that 

I had to make sure no paint got on the floor, walls, etc!

Anyway, here are my few progress shots of creating Alstroemerias III.

Sketches to get a feel for the flowers.

My Coulter easel was perfect.

This is a sample of how a print would appear.

Alstroemerias III
18" x 12"
19" x 13" framed

Ok, thanks for reading and I hope your painting goes well!

🎨 Teri

Blue Bug (on a hill)

 

Long ago, & far away from Juneau ...

My husband and I lived for a short time in Torrington, Wyoming. During the days, sometimes I would walk around the town while Matt was at work (as an Environmental Inspector for a pipeline going in nearby). I walked up a hill and passed a cute blue Volkswagon bug parked along the street. 

Can't quite remember if I sketched this right there, or if I sketched it when

I got back to the apartment. At any rate, I began to paint it. 

The very few photos I took as I progressed are here.

Blue Bug (on a hill)
8 x 10 inches
oil on Ampersand panel

Thank you for reading!

🎨

Flowers! Workshop - final post

 Hello, here are a few more of my drawings and paintings done in the

Flowers! workshop with Jordan Wolfson. 

I had a single sunflower, so I stuck it in a tiny vase.

Here is the photo.

Other shots showing b&w, etc.

Using black and white paint to begin.

Partway through.

Just about done ...

Toward the Sun
oil on canvas panel
12 x 9 inches

I have an Orchid Cactus that bloomed during this workshop.

Bloom (Orchid Cactus)
Oil on canvas
12 x 16 inches

Pink Rose
Oil on Masonite
12 x 7.75 inches

Fav Bouquet Blooms
Oil on watercolor paper
10 x 7 inches

Charcoal drawing
24 x 18 inches

In the middle of painting a bouquet that included 

a large yellow Chrysanthemum (Mum),

I realized that I needed to find out how best to paint that Mum. 

So I began googling painters who painted flowers and found 

a Chrysanthemum painting by Piet Mondrian!

Most of you probably know him for his abstract, or "De Stijl" or "the style",

paintings that looked like this:

The painting that I found to copy and learn from is this:

Yellow Chrysanthemums in a Ginger Pot
by Piet Mondrian, c.1898

Yellow Chrysanthemums
after Piet Mondrian 
Oil on canvas

16 x 12 inches

So I tried again with this painting 

Title tbd
Oil on canvas
20 x 15 1/2 inches

My little Moth Orchid bloomed (and is still blooming),
so I am trying to do a painting of her.

wip

Not sure how it will end up, but it is all a learning experience.

So, until next post, thank you so much for reading,

and ... happy creating!

🎨

Oh, and please visit my website!

  Teri Robus Studio

Flowers workshop continued

Hi - another post from the Flowers! workshop

with artist Jordan Wolfson.

My last blog post HERE, showed the black & white charcoal drawing

and the one with oil paint (photos again for reference).

As a reminder, this is my charcoal drawing of the lilacs.

I don't feel the space here, yet. Since it is charcoal,

I can still work it.

This is my black & white painting using oil. It's not the edited mono
version but it looks like that! I do feel that there is form
and space around the lilacs and the glass they are in. Yay!

 Next stage is oil paint in color. I took one photo I think, of my progress.

Below is the final lilac painting. My goal is to show the visible space around the vase and the blooms, and to hopefully have it feel like there is form to the whole thing.

Hali's Lilacs IV

Thanks for reading! I will have one more post about this workshop.

Cheers and happy painting!

Teri   🎨

Flowers Workshop - Part 2

 

On the first day of our Flowers workshop, Part 2, with artist and instructor

 Jordan Wolfson, we began with drawing.

As Jordan explained, it will be different than the Part 1 sessions 

in that we will be exploring mark making, gesture, "making a mess" - 

not as much on the skills of finding form, geometry and structure, like last time. 

It will be much more of an "open exploration".

So here is my first effort using charcoal. 

I am still trying to find the space
around the bouquet and vase ... very hard!

Since I had been given some lovely Lilacs by my friend Hali this year 

(for the third year in a row) I decided to use them 

for the second class of the workshop.

I didn't have enough paper to have a
fully pink background,so try to imagine it.

first attempt

Lilacs - second/final stage
24 x 18
charcoal on paper

Our second class was still in black and white, but in my case with oil paint.

Lilacs b&w
16 x 20
oil on canvas

The next 2 weeks will be exploring with color, so stay tuned! 

and

thanks so much for reading! 🙏

all my best to you, and happy painting!

Teri

🎨

Flowers Workshop - end Part I

 Hello dear reader -

If you recently read my June newsletter and are popping over here 

to see these last flower paintings from the workshop I was in, welcome! And if you

always check this blog and many times there is nothing new,

but now there is, welcome to you too! 

[By the way, if you ever just want to read/see what I have been up to in my studio - just click on the menu line that says Studio Journal, on my website ... you don't have to "join or follow" like it says in the sidebar on this page.]

This is the still life bouquet I was
looking at to paint this next exercise. The progress shots are below.

Pink Rose (I need to think of a title)
still life
oil on Masonite
12" x 7 3/4" 

bouquet & painting side by side

For my last Flowers Part I painting exercise, 

I had a few Alstroemeria stalks that were still in 

good shape so I popped them into one

of my favorite vases.

The following show the photo of what I was painting and the progression.

I used a piece of watercolor paper that
 I had previously coated with a turquoise-y acrylic paint as an underlayer 

On Their Way Out
(but still beautiful)
Still Life
Acrylic & oil on Watercolor paper
10" x 7" 

painting and bouquet

Ok, that is it for Flowers workshop Part I. 

Thanks for reading!

I will be blogging about the second Flowers workshop (Part II) 

from Jordan Wolfson,

and the other challenge paintings that our group has made.

If you haven't yet, I'd love for you to take a peek at My Website!

Happy Painting!

Teri